Why is it asinine? A very important provision deciding if Arlington gets the new Cowboy stadium, is on the ballot... In other words, painting your face blue and wearing Cowboy gear would be electioneering. Also they are only doing this in Arlington.

Why is it illegal to wear clothing that has something to do with whats on the ballot?Are they afraid it will sway someone's opinion?"Looky there Bubba, Mr. McCoy supports the cowboys. We better make the right choice here if we wanna get on his good side"

I live in Arlington and will vote against it. They are promising a lot of crap that isn't going to happen. Jerry Jones will fark any city that builds him a stadium. Dallas and Irving turned down his package, Arlington city council are numbnuts enought to go for it.

This sounds like typical [Texas] to me: push everything you do to the point of absurdity. Up here we have laws prohibiting posters, petitions, pictures and distributing campaign materials withing 150 feet of a polling place. If they went further than that, they would be rightly ridiculed, and their tea dumped in the harbor.

"Why is it illegal to wear clothing that has something to do with whats on the ballot? Are they afraid it will sway someone's opinion?'Looky there Bubba, Mr. McCoy supports the cowboys. We better make the right choice here if we wanna get on his good side'"

because electioneering is bad. Think of it this way: What if a bunch of Klu Klux Klansmen, in full white robes and hoods, and a flaming torch, stood in front of the entrance and threatened any blacks that tried to vote? What if someone with a realistic-looking super-soaker stood in front of a sign that said "I'll shoot anyone who disagrees with proposal Z" What if three hundred guys with "Support Bob" shirts all went to vote at once and then just kind of stood around for the next half hour? What if some unimportant local office (ie dogcatcher) was standing at the entrance saying "hey, remember to vote for me, too. Here, have some free chocolate."

All of these things would have a significant impact on the relavant ballot proposal. Either through making voters feel intimidated or making them vote for something they normally wouldn't vote for. Hence, there are laws against such tactics.

Presumably, you know who you're voting for when you go to vote. Other people aren't allowed to change your mind by force or coersion.

Actually this makes perfect sense. We have a law here forbidding campaigning within a certain distance from polling stations. As others have mentioned, the Cowboys have a big monetary interest in the outcome of this election. Wearing Cowboys clothing, in addition to making you an asswhipe, is in this case really no different than wearing a Bush t-shirt to the voting booth, which, incidentally, also makes you an asswhipe.